New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-10-14
INDIAN TROUBLES IN THE NORTHWEST


THREATENED VIOLENCE IN DAKOTA-REPORT OF
THE SPECIAL AGENT ON THE CROW OUTBREAK.
WAsHrSorOx. Oct l3-The Secretary Of the Interior
late this afternoon received information that the Indians
on tho Crow Creek and Lower Brule reservation In
Dakota had by their threatened Violence stopped the
allotment surveys 10 progress on the reservation and
that further trouble Is feared Secretary Lamar has had
consultation with General Sheridan, who starts
row for the West and Is said steps will be Immediately
taken to meet the emergency and resume the work.
The Secretary Of the Interior to-day received tele
graphic report from Special Agent Howard the stua
ton at the Crow agency in Montana. The agent says
substantially:
On Friday evening. the 3oth Of last month every:
thing was ouiet and peacefnlt Agent Williams and
his wife were porch Of his house. he reading his mail
when O'clock the 81 81, GSSs s~e Medicine oac
tho agency and then separated INTO small Dahns one OF
wa'a ye Of SIX In and easr and wei.
around the agency building and tired INTO tue I1als
M at inc Man then came 70 tn. agents dwelling
house the side and fired vollsy at the roof Iho
Indians were very defiant and insolen and there WAS
Two troops Of cavalry arrived on the groand about
10 %. m but the officer In charge did not nave
Instructions to make arrests but to protect ne
agent and nr 81 ndas s, am eoa
nued to make hostile demonstrations anu sent 70
time renewing all their squaws. old men and children
from tepees to the opposite side Of the river Tho
gang kept their shooting around the agency building
openly defying the troops. nearly all night
on Saturday morning two moro troops OF cavalry ar,
and some sixty seventy followers stationed them
selves top oa hin overlooking the agency and about
a quarter OF mile from where the troops were camped,
and dared defed them to come up there and taxe
the land do yeti In tic evening they dsap.
peared and have been planting the seeds OF discor1
among whole Crow tribe since ana ABUSING an
Crows being old women because they VIII not ION
them to light whites. These Indians have not only
stolen from tho Pcgaus but from white settlers
along their line Of plundering.
This M.dicno Man." who Is tho leader
OF this bad element OF Indians gained
his notoriety very recently lie and
few bucks ran off to sun dance" which was
held Northern Cheyenne agency some four months
ago stood the torture 80 well that All tho
Indians present pronounced him "big medicine man
and gave him the sword which Is usually given In sich
ana he has been quietly and gradually delnors.
lzng young Crow bucks since. lie Is very bad
Indian and II and his followers not arrested all
the progress these Indians have made will be lost Tor
aud the whole Crow nation completely de-
mcrslzed. These fellows male many threats which
have not embodied here.
Tho and MS employees arc quietly and cautiously
their usual duties but the outside all ~
Generalization Indians being gathered together IN banls
on different portions OF the Little and Big Hnrn havisg
abandoned their farms and apparently waiting to SEQ
will he the result aud also anxously fearing rAds
from the Pegsns who reported 20 DO out In several
bodies.